Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> writes:

> Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:
>
<snip>
>> Please keep version history bellow --- so they get dropped when the
>> patch is applied.
>
> Sure, I'll edit the mail before sending. In my repo, I'm leaving the
> version history in git so I can keep track of it.

It's OK to keep the history in git, I do it all the time. But by using a
--- divider in your commit message the git-am tool will trim it off when
it gets applied from a mailing list. There is no need to manually edit
your patches as that would be error prone.

To pick a random example of what I mean from my tree:

  
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commit/1b648ac695d45a4e4d72cf64a97346d9695b863b

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Alex Bennée

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